Sandia Lakes Recreation Area is a carefully maintained multi-use park covering 40 acres of mature cottonwood bosque along the Rio Grande River. Located on NM 313, just north of the intersection of 2nd and 4th streets, it offers an ideal escape from the urban environment. Visitors can enjoy year-round fishing, cool, shaded picnicking, or just strolling on improved trails through one of the oldest bosques in the southwest.
Trout are stocked during the cooler months of October through May. Catfish are stocked during the warmer months of June through September. Largemouth bass are also in the lakes, reproducing naturally. A state fishing license is not required.

Tingley Beach has three fishing ponds which are stocked about every two weeks by the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish
The fishing year is April 1 to March 31.

Saturday, Sept 5th: Capture a black bear in Los Ranchos; watch a young girl harvest her first deer; cook up some teriyaki venison on the camp stove with Dan Brooks, the Cast Iron Ranger; and explore the Petroglyph National Monument in Albuquerque.

Saturday, Sept 12th: Watch the Duke City Bass Bums hook bass at Santa Rosa Lake; perform a winter wilderness rescue with the UNM mountain rescue as the Albuquerque Rescue Council holds it’s final exam on the top of the Sandia Crest; cook up some delicious elk tacos; and stock native Rio Grande cutthroat trout in the Wild Rivers BLM area near Questa.

Saturday, Sept. 19: Enjoy a spring trout fishing trip on the Pecos River during a snowstorm; watch river otters return home to land owned by Taos Pueblo; learn how to use a farm disc to cook up red chile venison; and go birding on the Southwestern New Mexico Birding Trail.

Saturday, Sept. 26th: The National Archery in the Schools Program offers positive values to the youth of New Mexico; catch anglers competing in the inaugural Southwest Regional Qualifying Competition on Santa Cruz Lake and on the Rio Grande in an effort to earn a spot on the Fly-Fishing Team USA; find out how to make a tasty dessert in the Dutch Oven; view a collaborative effort to restore parts of the Gila River, as participants create cover habitat for the Gila Trout in the wilderness.